Portrait of a Billionaire on His Way to Prison—in France
Convicted and imprisoned billionaires are rare. France has just indicted billionaire & novelist Mohed Altrad.
Convicted and imprisoned billionaires are rare. France has just indicted billionaire & novelist Mohed Altrad.
Young Lebanese comic writer-illustrator duo Raja Abu Kasm and Rahil Mohsin convey what they think of corruption and their disintegrating country.
El Habib Louai on the Moroccan novel that sizes up and lampoons a country coming into its own in the internet age.
Novelist Samir El-Youssef recalls adolescent challenges and more recent experience where wasta was a necessity.
In which C.S. Layla, the American daughter of a Jordanian professor, remembers life and wasta in the old country.
Lawrence Joffe on how the al-Assad and Makhlouf families have mastered the art of control and corruption in a country decimated by a decade of war.
Overcome by the staggering violence of the explosion that ravaged Beirut in August, Paris-based playwright and director Wajdi Mouawad suggests that a world public forum must condemn Lebanon's ruling class.